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TIL The cherry blossoms in the Washington DC are actually a second attempt to introduce the trees to the US as an earlier shipment from Japan in 1910 died out. Also they aren’t the largest collection of cherry trees in the US, Branch Brook Park in Essex County NJ is.
Largest collection of cherry **blossom** trees.
Seeing the largest collection would be cool, except that you have to subject yourself to being in NJ.
No mention if Macon, GA?
It is known as the “Cherry Blossom Capital of the world.” The city has more than 300,000 trees. Branch Brook Park has less than 5,000.
Peak bloom date, which is when 70% of the flowers of the cherry blossom trees are open, is April 4
they don’t even make good cherries since they were bred to be ornamental
Then there’s this. We used to get can loads of cherries from there. and those who picked the cherries gave rise to that logical fallacy phrase, “cherry picking the data”.
https://mynorth.com/2014/08/northern-michigan-cherries-101/
Hey! I used to live in Essex County, NJ. Never visited this.
Dude nobody cares about cherry blossoms